The seasonal cycle of ocean-atmosphere CO2 flux in Ryder Bay, west Antarctic Peninsula

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Legge, Oliver J., Bakker, Dorothee C.E., Johnson, Martin T., Meredith, Michael P., Venables, Hugh J., Brown, Peter J., Lee, Gareth A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Ryder; Ryder Bay; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/376686/; https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/376686/1/Legge_et_al-2015-Geophysical_Research_Letters.pdf

Approximately 15 million km2 of the Southern Ocean is seasonally ice covered, yet the processes affecting carbon cycling and gas exchange in this climatically important region remain inadequately understood. Here, 3 years of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) measurements and carbon dioxide (CO2) flux...